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MISCELLANEOUS. BRIGHTON BEACH CASINO OPEN ALL YEAR 0 New Year's Eve Supper $1.50 Reserve Your Tables Now. Telephone Coney Island 1650. MENU. Manhattan Cocktail Flake Cocktail (tres Celery Radishes Gherkins Consomme A.

Filet of Beef Macedoine Julienne Bass Saute Meuniere Potatoes, Persillade Roman Punch Chicken a la King Chiffonade Salade Neapolitan Ice Cream Fancy Cakes Coffee Genuine Old Fashion. Beefsteak Dinner, $1.25. Private Dining Rooms, Banquet Halls. ceptional facilities for Wedding Parties, etc. TRIPS TO EUROPE CHARGED TO THE STATE One of the Discoveries in In vestigation of Prison Conditions.

COMMISSION REPORTS 7TO DIX. "Riot of Waste and Wrongdoing" Under Regime Colins. riot of Albany, N. December waste and wrongdoing" is the final summing up of the situation existing in the State prisons under the regime of Superaccording to the final intendent here yesterday with Governor report filed Dix by Commissioners William Church Osborn, Geofge E. Van Kennen and John McMahon.

The discoveries made by D. the commissioners are of such a nature the conclude their report with the that following recommendation: the evidence of the examination Indicated that there has been a conhas, stant defiance of the statutes and freagent violations of the penal law, the commissioners recommend that the report be submitted to the consideration of the Attorney General." A great deal of space in the report is given to instances of alleged mismanagement on the part of John P. Powers, formner superintendent of industries in Sing Sing Prison, who recently was dismissed OL charges filed by Commissioner MeMahon. It is charged in the report that Powers violated the law by opening bids in private, communicating their contents to favored bidders and relaxing the specifications in their interest. The paying of outlawed and unauthorized bills and the use of prison labor and material for private purposes are charged.

Attention is drawn to the extraordinary trips made by Powers, including one to the cities of Europe, all of which were charged up to the State, the average being over $700 a year. Great stress is laid on the fact that the workshops of the prisons are not used to be, and it is shown that while there is a anything like the extent that they should yearly market in the various State institutions for $20,000,000 worth of supplies that could be manufactured within the walls of the prisons, as a matter of fact, owing to bad management, less than $1,000,000 worth of goods are turned out. Concerning the plans for increasing prison facilities the report says: examination of the plans for more prison facilities shows that a saving of perhaps $2,000,000 can be had by a reconsideration of the scheme in contentplation at the present time. We recite in detail the history of the Great Meadow Prison at Comstock and the Wingdale site. In brief, it appears that negligence, in the construction and supervision of Comstock caused a loss to the State of approximately that the 600 acres of the Wingdale site are limited to about 100 acres of available ground; that the proposed prison yard is within a stone's throw of a railroad on one side and a State highway on the other, and abuts on swamp; that the proposal to expend $3,000,000 or more on this site to hold 1,500 prisoners is a waste of the State's money because the site is undesirable and because by remodeling and enlarging existing facilities at a moderate cost the department can satisfactorily house all State prisoners for many years to come.

The Superintendent of State Prisons informs us that he now has a separate cell for each prisoner SO that we cannot feel the urgency of expending 000 or more on this department when the other custodial departments of lunacy and charities are in dire stress for housing their wards." Soon after Governor Dix assumed office he requested Cornelius V. Collins, State Superintendent of Prisons, to resign. Mr. Collins refused and the investigation of the department resulted. It was first undertaken by Messrs.

Van Ken. nen and Osborn carly in April. Two weeks later Superintendent Collins resigned and was succeeded by Colonel Joseph F. Scott, who had been superintendent of the Elmira and Napanoch reformatories. "In June the Investigators submitted a preliminary report dealt largely with methods of maintenance and showed alleged irregularities in the purchase of coal and other prison supplies.

Not long after the submission of the report Superintendent Scott appointed new wardens at Sing Sing, Clinton and Great Meadows prisons, retaining Warden Benham at Auburn. While the investigation was confined primarily to business methods the conmissioners say they incidentally found conditions of discipline to be "inered. ibly lax." This, they say, has been particularly the case at Clinton and at Sing Sing. The investigators state that the direct effects of lax discipline have become manifest in the hampered efcien cy of the prison industries. ALLIS-CAHLMERS' DEFAULT.

Failure to Pay Interest May Throw Company Into Receivership. Announcement that the Allis-Chalmers Company directors have decided not to pay the interest on its first mortgage bonds, due January 1, 1912, precipitating the company into receivership, came as a surprise today to the financial district. which had received aszurances that the corporation's difficulties might be tided over. The amount of first mortgage bonds of the company is $11,148,000. with 000 of preferred stock and $19,220,000 com.

mon. Thre are two protective committees in the field. one representing tho beneficiaries and the other the preferred stock. INDEX To Classified Advertisements in To day's Eagle. Classification.

Amusements Auction Automobiles Bank Boarding Business Business Oppor'ties Borough Coastwise Steamers 12 Corp. Notices, 7-10-12-13-16 Death 16 Dividends 14 Election European Financial 14-10 For 11-1: Furn. iT Help Horses, Carriages, F.tc. Hotels Resorts. 19 supplement, JOHN DIEMER WITHDRAWS FROM ALDERMANIC FIGHT Will Not Be Candidate for Vice President off Board of Aldermen.

COMMITTEE" ROW Kline Esterbrook May Now choice of the Brooklyn Republicans. Anderman John Diemer, who was seas the choice of the caucus of the Republican Aldermen-elect for the position of vice pregident of the Board of Aldermen, declared today to his that hen would withdraw his canfriends didacy. This means that another man will be selected for the position, and the indications. are that either Alderman Kline O. Grant will be selected.

Alderman Reterbrook. of Downing, who is next to Diemer in point service on the board, is still in the race, but it is unlikely that he will be selected, according to the Republican leaders. The selection of Diemer as Republican choice for vice president the. the Board of Aldermen was accomplished through the agency of Alderman George A. Morrison of.

the Fifty -ninth Aldermanic District, in the Eighteenth Assembly District, of which Naval Officer Kracke is leader. Morrison broke away from Kracke and swung his strength to Diemer, who was thereby selected as the caucus nominee of the majority party and headed straight for the vice presidency of the aldermen, a very important posttion, as in case of the absence or death Mayor and the President of the Board, John Purroy Mitchel, the vice president of the board becomes the Acting Mayor, Controller William A. Prendergast, it is reported. put his foot down when he learned that Diemer was the choice of the Brooklyn Aldermen, and Borough President McAneny of Manhattan threatened to lead a fight on Diemer and break the caucus slate. Up in the St.

Mark's section, which Alderman Morrison represents, a storm of protest has been caused by Morrison's action in helping to select Diemer, and the friends of Naval Offer Kracke are greatly grieved at the Alderman's action. Mr. Kracke was in favor of the selection of Alderman Esterbrook, land Morrison broke from him on that issue. If the issue is to be raised for a primary fight against Kracke, as was the talk yesterday among Morrison's friends in the Eighteenth, Kracke's friends say that there would not be a better issue than "Diemer vs. Kracke." The session of the Republican "Steering yesterday, was a very stormy one, owing to the selection of Diemer by the Aldermen.

Elections Commissioner, Jacob Livingston, Republican leader of the Twenty-second District, and a member of the committee, was blamed for having "put up the job" to select Diemer as a measure hostile to Naval Officer Kracke. It was agreed that Diemer should be withdrawn as a candidate, but no formal request from the "Steering Committee' was made to the Aldermen Following the meeting of the "Steering Committee," the report was circulated that Congressman William M. Calder had resigned from the committee in disgust. This was pronounced false today by friends of the Congressman and by other members of the "Steering Committee." The Congressman would not dignify the story by a denial, but he is still a member of the committee and will attend its meetings whenever it is necessary. He 1s going to be in Washington for the next several months attending the session of Congress, and as he is the only Republican Representative from Greater Now York, he has thousand and one things to attend to at the Capitol which would prevent his attending to the details of party affairs in Brooklyn.

This was well understood when he agreed, after much persuasion, to accept membership on the "Steering Committee." Alderman John J. Meagher, Democrat, whose recent re-election in 8 district which sent a Republican to the Assembly and which gave a plurality to the Republican county ticket earned him new distinction in the Board of Aldermen, was chosen today at the Democratic Aldermanic caucus in the City Hall to be the minority candidate for the job of vice chairman, which by agreement will come to Brooklyn. Frank Dowling, the majority leader in the board now going out, was chosen as the minority leader in the new board, a and also as the minority candidate for chairmap, of the the Finance Democrats of Committee. the new board were present at the caucus today. Alderman John J.

Walsh was in the chair. B.R.T.'S SUBWAY PLANS STAND Willcox Says Company Will Operate Broadway, Manhattan Line. Chairman William R. Willcox of the Public Service Commission today said that the pending negotiations between the city and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company did not propose change in the subway through Broadway to Fifty- -ninth street planned by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. "You can make it as plain as you know how." the chairman said, "that there is to be no interference with the plan, already approved, by which the B.

T. expected to operate the Broadway line." Mr. Willeox was asked it the city had come to a full agreement with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. He said the matter was not closed. The understanding is, however, that thera ha3 been a substantial meeting of minds in recent conferences and that the taterborough will send in a new proposal.

The Public Service Commission today authorized the chairman and secretary begin next Wednesday, January 3, advertising for bids for the construction of Section 2 of the Lexington avenue tube. The advertising will call for bids to be pened on January 22 at noon. Section 2 begins in Church street, at pint about 80 feet north of the center of Dey street and runs under Church Vescy street, private property and to a point under Broadway. 110 fact north of the center line Walker street. There will be a station Murray and Warren streets.

The bidding now called for will be made upon rovised plans and under a form of contract slightly changed from that adop.ed in 1910, when this section was first put up for bidding. Section 2 is one of the longest of the towntown sections on the Broadway-Lexington avenue subway. Its total length is 3,772 feet. Up to the present time the commission has let contracts on the Lexington avenue subway aggregating $28,442,376.74. It is now advertising for bids for Section 3.

which will be opened January 11. By the end of January, 1912. therefore. it is not improbable that there will be $65,000,000 worth of new subways either under construction or on the Broadway-Lexington avenue route, 000 00 on the Brooklyn loop subway, and $16.000.000 on the Fourth avenue subway, in Brooklyn. OBITUARY Francis afternoon at 2 o'clock.

J. Howard Wainwright. Thursday Francis at Foulon his home, died 942 Foulon. of Fulton heart street. failure He was born in France sixty-six years ago, lived in Brooklyn fifty years, and was a member of Crystal Wave F.

and A. a and the Brooklyn Masonic Veterans. He leaves a widow, a son, Frank, and three daughters. J. Freelon Gaylord.

J. Freelon Gaylord, for thirty-five years engaged in the boot and shoe business in Catskill, died on Thursday at his home there. sixty-seven He was born in Schoharie County years ago. For a quarter of a century he manager and half owner of the Mott Gaylord Opera House, which he erected in Catskill. Professor Walter S.

Fortescue. Professor Walter S. Fortescue, for many years a noted educator and publisher of textbooks, died at his home Philadelphia today, aged 86 years. He was the founder of the Georgia Institute for the Blind at Macon, and the Young Ladies Seminary of l'a. Mrs.

Nannette Allison. Columbus, December 30-Mrs. Nannette Allison, who as Nannette Martien, was widely known as a Missouri teacher, through three decades and who later attracted national attention as the only. Democratic woman newspaper editor in Kansas, died here yesterday from burns received when lighing a gas stove. She was 67 years old.

Rosa A. Young. Rosa the widow. of Peter Young, died Thursday at her home at 235 Berkeley place. Her husband was for many years a bagging 1 manufacturer of Long Island City.

She was born in Susquehanna County, a member of the Church of St. Francis Xavier, and leaves a daughter, Mrs. Grace Dorothee Sander. Dorothee Sander, native of Hanover, Germany, aged 67 years. died yesterday after a protracted illness at the Prospect Heights Hospital.

Her home was at 1115 Jefferson avenue, and funeral services will take place at the home of her niece, Mrs. Henry Schroeder, 414 Eighth street, Monday J. Howard Wainwright, a brother of State Senator J. Mayhew Wainwright. died yesterday in the New York Hospital after an operation.

Mr. Wainwright was 49 year old. Governor Dix appointed him to the Committee for the Inspection of State Hospitals for the Insane, and some time ago Mayor Gaynor. named him for the Committee to Regulate the Use of Explosives in New York. Mr.

Wainwright's home was in Rye. N. Y. John McCabe. John McCabe, once a dry goods dealer and long employed by F.

Loeser died yesterday, after a protracted illness at his home, 853 Gates avenue. Mr. McCabe was born in the County Monaghan, Ireland. 51 years ago, and leaves a widow, Margaret Farrell. He was a member of the Holy Name Society and the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel.

Funeral services will take place at his home, tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock. William H. Redding. Havana, December 29-William H. Redding, the oldest American resident in Cuba and a multi-milionaire real estate dealer in Havana, died suddenly in his apartments in the Hotel Ingleterra yesterday.

He was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1841, and emigrated during his boyhood to the United States. Later he went to Cuba. Last year Pope Pius created Mr. Redding a count of the Holy Roman Empire. He will be burled in Calvary Cemetery.

James E. Johnson. James E. Johnson, after an illness of three days, died Sunday at his residence, 656 Gravesend avenue, Parkville, in his twenty-eighth year. Mr.

'Johnson for three years served as first lieutenant in the First Corps of the White Cross Relief and Hospital Association, a in whose uniform he was buried, and whose officers acted as pallbearers. Of a quiet, retiring manner, he gained many friends. Seven months ago the deceased married Miss Annie Reed, who survives him. He also leaves three sisters. Caroline Silverberg.

Caroline, wife of William Silverberg, died Thursday from Bright's disease at her residence, 135 Prospect Park West. Her husband was for many years a milliner on lower Fulton street, and the family formerly lived for forty-five years in the Eastern District. The deceased was born in Prague, Austria, -four years ago, and leaves her husband, a daughter, Auna, the wife of Samuel Blu- menstock, and three grandsons. Andrew Jackson Taylor. Andrew Jackson Taylor of 97 Sterling place died Wednesday of heart disease.

He was born in Manhattan on July 4, 1850, lived in Brooklyn twenty-five years, and for thirty-five years was head of the shipping department of Hill fruit importers, of Washington street, Manhattan. He was a member of Adirondack Council, R. and leaves his widow, Sarah A. Taylor. The Rev.

A. C. Southerton and the Rev. Herbert Lowe will officiate at the funeral services tonight. Valentine Moll.

Valentine Moll, a retired commission broker and former owner of the Monarch Hotel on upper Fulton street, died yesterday at his home at Fulton street. He was born September 13, 1870, and his family is one of the oldest on Ocean Hill. He was a member of the New Brooklyn German Reformed Church, which his grandfather, Nicholas Gilcher, helped to organize. For some years he was A Republican leader under Walter Atterbury in the Twenty-third Ward. He leaves three brothers, Joseph, Charles and William, and three sisters, Mrs.

Minnie Lester, Mrs. Florence Griffith and Mrs. Lillie Washburn. Richard C. Holahan, Richard C.

Holahan died at his residence, 1507 Bushwick avenue, Wednesday, after a brief Illness. He was a letter carrier connected with the Brooklyn Postoffice for the past twenty-two years, and at the time of his death was with Station S. Broadway and Greene avenue. He and is survived by a widow, Harriet, and was born in Brooklyn forty-five years ago three children, Florence and Agnes. He was a member of the Brooklyn Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association and the Station Mutual Aid Association.

Funeral services will take place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Inferment at Holy Cross Cemetery. He was a member of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Elizabeth Everdell. Elizabeth, wife of Albert Eubank Everdell, A manufacturing stationer of Manhattan, died yesterday, of typhoid fever after two weeks illness at her home, 1535 Union street, where funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.

the Rev. W. S. Watson, rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, officlating.

Mrs. Everdell was born in the lower part of Brooklyn, September 14, 1869, her parents being Edward and M. A. Harvey Sparrow. Her father was long a vestryman in the Church of St.

Michae! in which Mrs. Everdell was for many years active, and a much beloved teacher in its Sunday school. She was the oldest daughter of Edward Sparrow. and is survived by her husband, three sisters, Mrs. Julia Metz, Mrs.

George P. Kelly and Miss Sarah Sparrow, and three brothers, Willdiam, John E. and Allenn H. Sparrow. J.

A. Stow. John A. Stow, one of the founders and for twenty-five years treasurer of the Lambs Club, died on Wednesday at his home, 40 West Fifty-seventh street, Manhattan, at the age of 70 years. He was a member of one of New York's oldest families.

Mr. Stow had a wide acquaintance among authors, singers and actors. It was with Wallack, George Meer Lane. Harry Montague and Harry Becket, all theatrical celebrites of an earlier period, that he organized the Lambs Club. When he resigned from the office of treasurer two years ago he was made an honorary life member of the club.

Mr. Stow was a brother of George G. Stow. one of the oldest members of the New York Athletic Club, and an uncle of Will L. Stow, with whom he lived.

No A FOTTER REPLIES AGAIN TO PRENDERCAST SHAFT Denies He Deceived Board of Estimate Regarding Payments to Charitable Institutions. INCREASES WERE JUSTIFIED. Asks Why No Effort Was Made to Cite Figures at Recent Budget Exhibit. Dr. Daniel C.

Potter today replied to the charge of Controller Pendergast that when he was director of the Division of Charitable Institutions of the Finance Department he deceived the Board of Estimate into voting an increased allowance to the charitable institutions for the care of the city's wards. Dr. Potter denies that he ever deceived the city officials and points out the lower cost of maintainance in private institutions, than in those the city conducts. The increases voted, he declares, were absolutely justified by the conditions disclosed. Dr.

Potter asks why there was no effort made to show figures relating to the city's charitable institutions in the last budget exhibit and again scores the administration of Pendergast and the Bureau of Municipal Research. His statement, in part, is as follows: "On December 21 Controller Prendergast published the statement that on my recommendation in 1906 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment raised the rates paid to the private charitable institutions. He says, 'They adopted Dr. ter's recommendations undoubtedly on the strength of the representations he made, but those representations were not "The representations that I made covered all the institutions with which the city did business. During my administration of the charitable institutions bureau there was no discrimination made between the institutions conducted by the Jews, the Protestants the Catholics.

They were all treated exactly alike and for the same service rendered received the same rates from the city. "Did I deceive the Board of Estimate and Apportionment? "Let us see. At this time I wish to reply only to this accusation. "In 1900 Controller Coler, after the widest inquiry among all the institutions and charitable societies, selected the per capita rates upon which the city inaugurated its new system of payments to institutions. It was understood then that the rates Were tentative and experimental and it was agreed on both sides that if the amounts were found insuffcient they would be increased.

"At the public hearing given to private institutions in the preparation of the budget for 1902, then assembly chamber in the City Hall was packed by the repregentatives of the institutions. entire day was taken for the hearing." There was no institution heard but protested that the rates paid were insufficient. In their applications for apportionments for 1903, 1904. and 1905, the institutions, either by letters or personally, quite generally made the same claim. They sald that the city in requiring them to transact business upon the rates paid with the standards of maintenance and treatment demanded by the State Board of Charities, was asking the impossible.

Cost of Maintenance in Excess of City Allowance. "In 1903, under the direction of Controller Grout, I made wide inquiry as to the cost of maintenance in the private institutions throughout the city and elsewhere. I found, for example, that the per capita per diem cost in the Presbyterian Hospital was $2.34: St. Luke's, Mount Sinai from $1.50 to $1.50, and Roosevelt. $2.01.

In the Mas sachusetts General Hospital, the Rochester City Hospital, the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, $2.15, and the Boston City Hospital, $1.92. "Yet the City of New York was compelling the private hospitals to care patients at the rate of 60 cents a day for medical cases: 80 cents for surgical cases; for chronic, incurable or infirm patients, 30 cents a day. Dependent children were paid for at rate of $2 per week, delinquents at the rate of $110 per annum. City's Expenditures in Own Institutions Much Heavier Than in Private Ones. "What was it costing the city to carry on its own work in its own or public hospitals and children's institutions during this same period? Will the Controller contend that the private institutions, which furnish their own plants and their own equipment in every detail.

should be expected to furnish homes for children with clothing, food, oversight, medical treatment and education at a lower rate than that for which the city can do it in its own institutions? Or that the private hospitals should treat patients for the city at a rate lower than it costs the city in is own hospitals? Nobody will pretend to say that the treatment in private hospitals is less satisfactory, less adequate than in the city hospitals controlled by Bellevue and the Allied Board. "As to the per diem per capita cost in public hospitals, the city was paying approximately in Bellevue as far back as 1899, $1.04 and the increase since that date had been continuous and large. "The Department of Charities maintains but one children's institution, that on Randall's Island, admirable in 'every way. The per capita' cost of maintenance in that institution in 1905 was $3.43 per week. "In the light of facts of which these are examples, I recommended an increase of payment.

to hospitals of 10 cents a day and to children's institutions of 25 cents a week. Did I deceive Controller Metz. and did he. upon approving my recommendation, permit me to deceive the Board of Estimate? "I am very glad to have it charged up against me by Mr. Pendergast and the Bureau of Municipal Research that at that time.

under the conditions prevailing. I made the recommendation which secured this small advance in per capita payments to the private institutions. exceedingly regret that I could not have had the honor of recommending to Controller Pendergast that the rates paid today be increased something like A just and reasonable compensation to these institutions which are doing a work that the city could not do for from two to four times what it is paying them. Work of Charitable Institutions Suppressed in Last Budget Exhibit. "Last October there was a Budget Exhibit in this city, and the work of every department in the city was supposed to be displayed for the study of the taxpayer.

The work of the charitable institutions was suppressed. At least the Controller's department did not avail itself of the opportunity to show what was being done with their apportionment of DR. FORMAN'S ERDENTIFRICE "YOULL LIKE FOR THE GUMS AND TEETH LARGEST TUBE OF DENTIFRICE ON MARKET. almost $5,000,000. Yet the facts and figures were in the Controller's office.

Why were they kept the exhibit? "I did not deceive the Board of Estimate and Apportionment when I made recommendation to advance the rates private institutions. I be glad to present the tacts, as to care in Catholic institutions. Mr. Pendergast departs from the interpretation of the law held by his predecessors. They were familiar with the law and all the facts, and quite as honest and as competent." DIVORCE FOR MRS.

WEBSTER. Justice Jaycox has granted an interlocutory decree of absolute divorce, with $22 a week, to Mrs. Georgia Webster from her husband, George Webster, said to be connected with the Town and Country custody of a 3-year-old son. lives Magazine. The wife is also given, the at 148 Gates avenue.

The couple were married July 31, 1900. DR. DOTY REFUSES TO RESIGN OFFICE Continued From Page 1. ined into the matter, had taken statements in regard thereto, and I heard no more of them and assumed Governor had taken no action on as to the charges. Notwithstanding this fact, the commissioner allowed Mr.

Dushkind to act as if he were an official prosecutor. Mr. Dushkind called witnesses and served subpenas, argued against my administration, submitted briefs to the commissioner, and, I am informed. submitted a brief to you. Mr.

Cohen, an attorney at law, who was as I understand it appointed by the commissioner as his personal counsel, acted throughout the investigation as an assistant to Mr. Dushkind, who controlled and managed the entire proceedings. Investigation in the Nature of a Prosecution. "Thus, from the beginning the investigation became a preceding in the nature of a prosecution. Although surprised this development, I had nothing to fear from any fair prosecution, and still did not think it necessary to represented by counsel or to present hang testimony on my behalf other than such as might be called for by the commissioner.

But Mr. Dushkind was premitted to make the most serious charges against me and against my administration without shred of evidence. "For instance, he charged not once, but repeatedly. that at the hospital 011 Hoffman Island sick infants were exposed to the cold and weather for the purpose of murdering them, and that this practice was carried on by the nurses and physicians in charge of the hospital. subsequently developed that intrants suftering from pneumonia were treated by being placed in the open air with proper wraps and protection--a treatment practically universal, given in the best-managed institutions and approved by the most advanced practitioners.

The charge was made and pressed by Mr. Dushkind that the piano in my house was tuned at the public expense, and that members of my family had bought article of clothing and charged the same to the account of the State. It developed that the plano in question was one which had been presented by myself and my family to the State for the nurses' quarters at Hoffman Island; that it was the property of the State, and was used for State purposes. It further developed that the ludicrous charge that articles of clothing had been bought for my family at public expense was based upon the fact that in A bill rendered by John Wanamaker there appeared a number of dressers, at the price of about $15 each. These dressers were bureaus or dressing cases for the nurses' quarters at Hoffman Island.

I mention these A apparently trivial details for the purpose of showing the maner in which the preceding before the commissioner was conducted. "It became evident that the proceeding was not an investigation, but a prosecution, and that the Commissioner was allowing the proceeding to continue along these lines. I then retained counsel, who called as witnesses all of the doctors and nurses and other officials of Quarantine andof the two isalnds who had knowledge in regard to the matters involved in the proceediig, and also called a number of the most distinguished physicians of this city who were familiar with Quarantine affairs. Kept New York Free From Cholera in Midst of Probe. "It will be borne in mind that while this attack upon me was progressing, the harbor was full of cholera ships, and I was constantly engaged day and night in my efforts to prevent an introduction of that disease in this country.

So acute was the situation that the Mayor of this city, in the interest fthe health of the public, requested that my assistants should not be supened before the Commissioner until the danger of cholera should have abated; and this direction was, as I understand it, made by you. Toward the conclusion of the hearings all of the charges advanced by the immigrant women and the discharged or disgruntled former employees, called by Mr. Dushkind, had been fully met and explained by the testimony of my various assistants who had knowledge of the details. "My work in connection with the business affairs and the administration of the hospitals on the two islands is entirely supervisory, my personal attention being given, according to my ideas of my duty, chiefly to the most essential function of my office; that is to say, the boarding of ships, the treatment of suspected cases, of communicable diseases and my duties properly of quarantine nature. There had been no attack upon this feaat ture of -the admniistration of my office.

As to other matters involved in the charges, I had little or no personal knowledge. My assistants had, as I have said, fully testifled in explanation. Furthermore, I was at that time in poor health from the overwork, suspense and anxiety involved in my efforts to avert the cholera. Was Advised by Physician to Take Rest, but Stuck to Post. "My personal physician, Dr.

Herman M. Biggs, insisted that I should go to the Adirondacks under his care for a short rest and treatment, and absolutely forbade my appearing as a witness. I was advised by my counsel that my testimony as a witness was in no sense necessary for the reasons which I have stated. I was further advised that the Commissioner had stated to my counsel that he did not desire to issue a subpena for me, and that he would leave the question of my appearing as a witness entirely within the discretion of my counsel and myself. He did not convey to me or to my counsel any request that I should appear.

Under these circumstances, and particularly in view of the flimsy character of the testimony against me, and in further view of the complete, and to my mind, satisfactory, explanations made by my assistant health officers, by physicians and nurses who had appeared before the Commissioner, I did not take the stand to give my testimony. Why No Written Reply to Charges Was Made. "Referring to your suggestion that I might have filed a written answer, the immediate and conclusive reply is that no such answer would have been received by the Commissioner. He declined to take affidavits or to receive evidence other than testimony admissible by the rules of evidence. He excluded a statement 35 to my physical condition, and a telegram from Dr.

Biggs, on the same subject, both of which are noted in my brief to you, on pages 4 to 7. I could not, therefore, submit any written answer to the so-called charges. Indeed no formal charges had ever been made, nor have any charges been made to the present day, and, as no formal charges had been presented, I could not submit any formal answer, and, as I have said, the Commissioner refused to accept any written testimony or statement; so that, with great respect, I must state that I can sea no force in the suggestion that I mignt have fled a written answer. "In due course the Commissioner fled his report ignoring the testimony presented in my behalf, accepting the testimony of Mr. Dushkind's witnesses and drawing from such testimony the most unfavorable and savage inferences against me.

This report of the Commisevery particular, and resignation is sioner has now been a ate sustained by you in asked for on the ground that the sions of the Commissioner were justified. Flatly Refuses to Resign Two Reasons. "For two reasons I must decline to "Health Officer, Port of New York." WILL SING BUCK'S CANTATA. resign: "In the first place, the position of Health Officer of the Port of New York is one of national, and may say international, importance. For the past sixteen years I have conducted that office to the utmost of my ability, with unsparing labor and with constant effort to adopt the most advanced scientific processes of quarantine and of sanitation.

I believe that I have been successful in putting its affairs upon a high plane of efficiency. I have been fortunate enough to win the unanimous commendation of the great physicians and the sanitary and quarantine experts of this and other countries. I have also been fortunate enough to prevent during my administration the outbreak of any epidemic of communicable disease introduced through this port, and I have further been able to accomplish this result in such a manner as to meet the approval of the commercial interests of the harbor of New York, including the importers and the exporters. To offer my resignation in the face of these so-called charges would unpleasantly reflect upon the physicians and the merchants who have honored me with their confidence and approbation. It would be an injury to the cause of progressive and scientific quarantine.

There is certainly no quarantine office in the world charged with such responsibility as that of the health officer of this port. For the incumbent of that office, after an administration of sixteen years, to resign under such circumstances would be to flout and discourage the efforts of all; those scientists and laymen who have so generously and effectively held up my hands in my effort to discharge my duties. "Furthermore, and as A second reason why should not resign is the fact that I believe it would be, to do so, tantamount to an admission that there at least some basis for some of the socalled conclusions of the commissioner. From my knowledge of the testimony do not believe there is any trustworthy proof to support these conclusions, and that all of the matters alleged against me have been overwhelmingly disproved and explained by testimony of the highest character. Also, I am conscious in my own breast of no such derelictions of duty as are suggested.

In justice to myself and my family, therefore, I cannot by resignation concede that there is any basis these charges. "As your communication of December 27, 1911, contains a number of state, ments which reflect upon my administration and as wide publicity has been given to those statements, feel it to be my duty to make a brief answer to them. They have all been fully considered and discussed in the briefs submitted to the commissioner a and to yourself." Dr. Doty here replies in detail to the Governor's letter and answers the Mayor separately. Believes Testimony Refutes Rather Than Proves Charges.

In conclusion, Dr. Doty says: "I have very briefly stated the facts in regard to the principal matters you mention in your letter againgt me. could cite at very much greater length and with more detail testimony which, in my opinion, absolutely disproves all of the allegations. But I have no desire to extend this letter further than is absolutely necessary. The testimony taken before the commisisoner not only failed, as I believe.

to show any dereliction on my part. but. on the contrary, established the successful administration of my office. In addition, I am not conscious of anything except the most faithful and strenuous effort on my part to discharge its duties faithfully. am advised by those qualified to judge that my administration has been successful.

I cannot, therefore, in justice to the cause of proper and scientific quarantine administration, or in justice to myself or my family, do other than decline your request for my resignation. I beg to remain, respectfully yours, "ALVAH H. DOTY, A festival service will be held at All Souls Church, Ocean and Ditmas avenues. tomorrow afternoon at 4:15 o'clock, when Dudley Buck's cantata, "The Coming of the is to be sung. The music will be under the direction of Emil Dillmann.

The soloists will be Miss Maude E. Klotz, soprano; Miss B. W. Warinus, contralto; Francis A. Weismann, tenor; W.

W. Fitzhugh, bass. They will have the assistance of four soloists and the cantata chorus. WEATHER FORECAST. Persons desiring information concerning the weather, temperature or other information can secure it by using telephone No.

571 Main, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Weed days. Nights and Sundays, 6200 Main, Indications Until 8 P.M. Tomorrow.

Washington, December 30-For Eastern New York: Snow in north portion; snow or rain in south portion late tonight or on Sunday; rising temperature; moderate northeast and east winds. Local Probabilities. Rain or snow tonight or Sunday; rising temperature, probably followed by clearing and colder Sunday night; moderate easterly winds. General Weather Conditions. The disturbance over the southwest has extended its influences over the entire Central valleys, with heavy rains in Texas, Louisiana and the Southwest, moderate rains over the middle Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys and light to moderate snows to the northwest of these sections.

Zero Kansas weather extends over Central and Western and freezing temperatures in Central Texas. Rising temperatures, with rain or snow and moderate easterly or southerly winds, will prevail in this vicinity tonight and Sunday, followed by clearing and colder Sunday night or Monday, with winds shifting to west or northwest and becoming brisk. Tem- Pre- Tem. Prepera- cipita- pera- cipitature. tien.

ture. tion. a.m. today, 8 a.m. today.

Boston Orleans. 69 24 38 26 St. 86 .26 Philadelphia 32 34 .02 Washington. 34 20 .46 50 Fran'co. 42 .18 Highest, 62, at New Orleans; lowest, 20, at Duluth.

OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29. 4 3 p.m. 27 8 9 p.m. 25 p.m.

p.m. 5 p.m. 26,10 p.m. 24 7 6 p.m. 26 20,12 11 p.m.

(midnight) 24 p.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1 a.m. 8 a.m. 26 a.m1.

24 9 a.m. 28 a.m. a.m. 30 a.m. a.m.

31 6 a.m. 25 12 (noon) 6 a.m. p.m. 35 a.m. 25 2 p.m.

35 Average temperature today, 27. Average temperature a year ago today, 33. HIGH WATER. Durat'n of 'Time High, Rise Fall 11. M.

Feet M. H.M.|H.M. New 3:50 4.7 3:08 4.0 5:54 6:35 Sandy Hook. 3:25 4.7 3:43 4.0 6:08 6:35 SUN RISES AND SETS. December 30.

December 31. Sets. .4:38 1:39 SHIP NEWS. Arrived at 'New York Today. Cubana from Matanzas, Korona from Demerara.

Currier from Havana. Millinocket from Stockton. J. M. Guffey from Port Arthur.

Seminole from Monte Cristi. Industry from Montevideo. Rio Grande from Brunswick. Arrived at Foreign Ports Today. Plymouth-Philadelphia from New York.

Sailed From Foreign Ports Today. Antwerp-Zeeland for New York, MISCELLANEOUS. FOUNTAIN. HOUSE 359-365 Flatbush Ave. Special Bill of Fare for New Year's Eve.

Special Music by Brighton Trio and Miss Pullman RESERVE YOUR TABLES NOW SOUVENIRS. GEORGE STORM. LAW NAMES 21 MEN AS SHERIFF'S AIDS Bernard J. Reilly Appointed Chief Clerk at Salary of $2,500. WRIGHT AGAIN JAIL WARDEN.

To Get Back Position to Which Bridges Succeeded--Deputy Sheriffs and Assistant Deputies, Too. Sheriff-elect Charles B. Law today announced twenty-one appointments to places in the Sheriff's office. Richard Wright, Republican leader of the Fifteenth Assembly District, who now occuples a place In the Controller's office, is made warden of the jail, a place which he formerly held, and will succeed James J. Bridges, the Democratic leader of Second district, who was appointed to the place two years ago, succeeding Mr.

Wright. The salary of the jail warden is $3,000 a year. Bernard J. Reilly of the Twenty-second Assembly District, Sheriff- Law's home district, is appointed chief clerk at a salary of $2,500 per year, succeeding T. E.

Fitzgerald. Albert B. Waldron of the Eighth As- Bernard J. Reilly, Appointed Chief Clerk by Sheriff Law. sembly District is named as assistant clerk at $2,000 a year, to succeed G.

C. Flaberty, a son of former Sheriff Flaherty. Charles H. Francisco of the Twentysecond District Is appointed deputy warden at a salary of $2,000, and James H. Ruggles, who was Mr.

Law's secretary in Congress, and comes from the Twentysecond District, is named as secretary at $1,500 per year. Five deputy sheriffs, at $2,200 per year each, are appointed as follows: Antonio De Martini, Third Assembly District: Arthur R. Seward, 'Fifth Assembly District; William F. Haitz, Twenty-first Assembly District; Bernard Rothberg, Independence Leaguer; William Burgess, Twelfth Assembly District. Seven assistant deputy sheriffs at $1,000 per year each are appointed as follows: Joseph J.

McKeon, Fifteenth Assembly District; Daniel J. Bradshaw, Sixteenth Assembly District: Max Michaels, Fifth Assembly District; Hugo Herdt, Nineteenth Assembly District: Thomas E. Miller. Twenty Assembly District; Thomas Roper, Ninth Assembly District; Peter Kraemer, Twenty-third Agsembly District. Three jail-keepers at $1,200 per year each have been appointed, including Matthew N.

Dougherty, Nineteenth Assembly District: Michael P. Pendergast. Eleventh Assembly District: David Rosenberg. Twenty-third Assembly District. Jail matron, Mrs.

Thomas Carney. Some of the above are personal appointments. The others were recommended by the Republican organization. There are a few remaining positions In the Sheriff's office which will be filled in the course of a few days. THE CANADIAN ROCKIES.

Howard Vernon Lectures About Them to Young Men's Class. The first monthly social and ment of the Young Men's Class of the Clinton Avenue Presbyterian Church, Clinton avenue and Lafayette, was given last night in the church parlors. A large attendance of the men of the church was in evidence and passed a very enjoyable evening. A lecture on the "Canadian Rockies" was delivered by Howard Vernon, who took his material from observations made in a recent trip through the northern part of the United States and Canada. The Rev.

Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, pastor of the church, and F. E. Bolster. associate pastor, also spoke et the meeting.

In addition to the volunteer talent, the men were treated to an enjoyable halfhour of entertainment by some of the talent from Tappan's Hotel, Sheepshead Bay. The Men's Class, in conjunct.on with Club of the church. will rouge. hold these socials monthly, and judging from the attendance at the affair last night the popularity of the meetings 19 established. DR.

CARSON'S WATCH NIGHT. Many Clergymen Will Speak at Services. Classification. Pago. Legal Notices.

Lost and 16 Amusements. Musical Instruction Ocean Railroads Bargain Counter R. E. at Auction R. 15.

Religious Sits. Special Advis. Special Notices. Steamboats To Let-For Sale Travel Wanted A splendid programme has been arranged for the Watch Night Services 111 the Central Presbyterian Church, Jefferson and Marcy avenues. The service will begin at 9 o'clock and continue until 12.

Gospel hymns will be sung by the congregation. The soloists for the evening will be Theo. Martin, Overton Moyle and A. W. Figgis.

Dr. Carson will preside throughout the evening and the programme of speakers will be as follows: 9:30 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman; 10 o'clock, the Rev.

Dr. Robert Bagnell; 10:30 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Curtis Lee Laws; 11 o'clock, Dr. C.

T. Edward3, Beloit, 11:30 o'clock, Dr. Carson and his assistant will speak. lite.